PBS
Newton's Apple: Taste and Smell
Discusses the senses of smell and taste and describes their interconnectedness. Provides an activity to investigate the interactive nature of taste and smell.
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: Your Nose
Your nose lets you smell and is also the main gate to the respiratory system. Read this article for kids to discover just how it works.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Taste and Smell
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Imagine you open a gallon of milk, and you suddenly smell a foul odor. Your sense of smell has informed you that the milk has spoiled. So you pour the spoiled milk...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Taste and Smell Questions
This is a 10-question quiz pertaining to taste and smell.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tickle My Taste Buds
This engaging interactive helps children learn that different foods have different tastes.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science of Cooking: Your Sense of Taste
How does your tongue taste? This site has tounge images, quizzes, activities and more.
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine: Using Our Senses
This lesson plan site delves into the senses of smell, touch, taste, sight, and hearing. Students will be able to describe the ways senses affect their lives and how a pediatrician uses his/her senses to examine patients.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Sid the Science Kid: I Sense
Listen carefully. Can you answer Sid's questions about the five senses?
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Tongue, a Sense of Taste
This lesson plan allows learners to investigate the four taste sensations and the receptors on the tongue.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Investigation of the Taste Buds
This lesson plan allows students to taste sugar, baking soda, vinegar, and salt, which are then categorized as salty, sour, bitter, and sweet.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: Introduction to the Senses
This lesson plan allows learners to investigate body parts associated with each of the five senses.
Michigan Reach Out
Taste Buds
In this lesson plan students discover where different tastes are located on the tongue.
Treehut
Suzy's World: Taste
At this site from Suzy's World by Suzy Cato, you can find out how your mouth works and try an experiment involving taste.
The Franklin Institute
In Quiry Almanack: Tasting
Interest students in learning about the sense of taste with this mouth watering site. Offers activities to use in the classroom as well as scientific research.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biology for Kids: Smelling and Tasting
Kids learn about the science of smelling and tasting. Two senses of the human body.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Tu Lengua
Your tongue is one tough worker. Read and learn more about the different functions of your tongue.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Senses Taste
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes our sense of taste and asks some fun questions.
SEDL
Sedl: Five Senses
Elementary students will gain great insight into the workings of our five senses through this collection of detailed, integrated lesson plans for grades K-3. Each lesson contains a list of needed materials, hands-on explorations...